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-** Amiga 500 **
+** Amstrad CPC **
-No mass-storage provision as standard.
+No mass storage as standard
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-** Amiga 1200 **
+** Apple Macintosh IICi **
-On board 44pin 2.5" IDE header was fitted as standard.
+Came with SCSI 1 onboard controller.
-Currently fitted: 3.5" drive bay with Compact Flash reader to IDE. SCSI CD reader attached to Blizzard SCSI IV.
+Currently fitted: Aztec CF Monster, SCSI to IDE/CF bridge card and Compact Flash card.
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+Supplier: http://www.artmix.com/CF_AztecMonster.html
+Price: No longer available
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-** Amstrad CPC **
+**Atari Jaguar**
 No mass storage as standard
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-** Apple Macintosh IICi **
+**Atari ST**
-Came with SCSI 1 onboard controller.
+Added an [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|UltraSatan]] twin SD card reader, attached to the Atari SCSI port on the rear of the machine.
-Currently fitted: Aztec CF Monster, SCSI to IDE/CF bridge card and Compact Flash card.
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+**BBC Model B/Master**
-Supplier: http://www.artmix.com/CF_AztecMonster.html
+Originally added a [[http://www.zeridajh.org/hardware/gommc/|GoMMC]] interface.
-Price: No longer available
+Replaced by a [[http://www.retroclinic.com/|MicroSPI SD]] interface which does the same, but is a little more streamlined in what it does and how it works.
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+** Commodore Amiga 500 **
+No mass-storage provision as standard.
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-  * Atari Jaguar
+** Commodore Amiga 1200 **
+On board 44pin 2.5" IDE header was fitted as standard.
-No mass storage as standard
+Currently fitted: 3.5" drive bay with Compact Flash reader to IDE. SCSI CD reader attached to Blizzard SCSI IV.
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-  * Atari ST
+**Commodore PET**
-Added an [[https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=48|UltraSatan]] twin SD card reader, attached to the Atari SCSI port on the rear of the machine.
+Added a [[https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/sd2pet-future.html|SD2PET-Future]] SD card reader which attached to the rear IEEE bus port.
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-  * MSX
+**MSX**
 Added a [[https://www.msxcartridgeshop.com/|MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD]] cartridge with micro SD slot, 512k memory expansion and Konami sound hardware emulation.
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-  * NEC PC-9801 / PC-9821
+**NEC PC-9801 / PC-9821**
 Takes standard EIDE devices. Has native capacity restrictions (4.3GB, 8GB, etc) to various low-sized IDE drives. [[blog:pc98_hdd|Burned a replacement IDE ROM BIOS]] into an addon card and am currently using an 80GB 2.5" ATA drive.
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-  * NEC PC-Engine / Duo
+**NEC PC-Engine / Duo**
 Have the original Turbo Everdrive 1.x, which adds a micro SD card which allows loading of cart based games.
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-  * Nintendo DS
+**Nintendo DS**
 Added a Cyclo DS Evolution flash card for the DS side of things in slot 1.
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-  * Nintendo Gameboy Advance
+** Nintendo Gameboy Advance**
-  * Nintendo Gamecube
+** Nintendo Gamecube**
 No mass storage device at present.
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-  * Nintendo SNES
+**Nintendo SNES**
 Added a [[https://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=84|SNES Powerpak]] to load games from CF card. Supports normal games and those with DSP1 chip. No other special cart support.
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-  * Sega Dreamcast
+**Nintendo Wii**
+Uses the internal SD card slot and is softmodded to load games off external USB hard drive via //USB GX Loader//.
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+**Nintendo Wii U**
+Uses the internal SD card slot and is softmodded. Has two external USB drives; one for Wii content and one for Wii U content - if loading games from hard drive, they cannot be shared.
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+**Sega Dreamcast**
 Added a [[https://gdemu.wordpress.com/|GDEMU]] SD card adapter to the Dreamcast which replaces the GDROM drive unit.
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-  * Sega Game Gear
-  * Sega MasterSystem
+**Sega Game Gear**
-  * Sega Megadrive
-  * Sega Saturn
+No dedicated device, but have a Master Gear Converter which allows the Master Everdrive, below, to be used on the Game Gear.
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-  * Sinclair ZX Spectrum
+**Sega MasterSystem**
+Added a [[https://segaretro.org/Master_Everdrive|Master Everdrive]] which plays all SMS cart games from micro SD card.
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-Initially, I owned a DivIDE+ adapter, taking CF cards and with a full size 40-pin IDE interface, as well as additional RAM for various Spectrum DOS versions.
+**Sega Megadrive**
-Recently replaced with a [[https://www.bytedelight.com/?product=divmmc_enjoy_pro_one|DIVMMC Enjoy Pro One]], which does the same or similar thing, with SD cards and is a lot smaller.
+Added a **Team Neo Super MD Flash Cart** and **Neo 2 SD** card interface //(the latter plugs into the former to add removeable SD card support, otherwise the Super MD Flash Cart only supports a limited number of games in its internal flash)//. These are old devices, but still work really well (once they are set up).
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-  * Sony Playstation
+**Sega Saturn**
+Added a [[https://gdemu.wordpress.com/operation/rhea-operation/|RHEA]], by the producer of the GDEMU. It's a replacement drive unit that swaps with the CDROM of the Saturn and plays game images from SD card.
+Also added an [[https://segaretro.org/Action_Replay_Plus|Action Replay 4M+]], which allows bypassing country lockouts, a better RHEA menu interface etc. Really, the two things are needed together.
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+**Sinclair ZX Spectrum**
+Initially, I owned a [[https://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide/divide_plus/divide_plus.htm|DivIDE Plus]] interface, taking CF cards and with a full size 40-pin IDE interface, as well as additional RAM for various Spectrum DOS versions.
+Recently replaced with a [[https://www.bytedelight.com/?product=divmmc_enjoy_pro_one|DIVMMC Enjoy Pro One]], which does the same or similar thing, with SD cards and is a lot smaller, as well as having joystick ports and more features built in.
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+**Sony Playstation**
 Added the [[https://ps-io.com/store/psio-cartridge/|PSIO cartridge]] that plugs into the parallel port and loads games from SD card.
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-  * Sony PS2
+**Sony PS2**
 The PS2 has native IDE device support (phat models only). Via a modchip, games can be stored on the IDE drive and run directly from there. Currently fitted with a 500GB 2.5" IDE drive.
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-  * Vectrex
+**Sony PS3**
+Uses 2.5" SATA drives as standard. Supports up to a maximum of 1.5TB (some anecdotal reports of 2TB working, but is hit and miss).
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+**Sony PS4**
+Uses 2.5" SATA drives as standard. Currently fitted with original 1TB drive.
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+**Vectrex**
 Added (many years ago) one of the early versions of the [[https://www.google.com/search?q=vecflash|VecFlash]] carts. Mine is one of the original serial connected devices, not the modern USB.
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+**X68000**
+Added a SCSI Zip drive (250MB) for data transfer, and a SCSI2SD (v5.1) interface board to connect to the internal SCSI interface and allow a micro SD card to be used as (multiple) SCSI hard drives.
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+**XBox (original)**
+Uses 40pin IDE as standard. Added a later, 1TB 2.5" SATA drive on a SATA/IDE converter.
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+**XBox 360**
+Uses SATA as standard. Added a 1.5TB 2.5" SATA drive to the clip-on drive module (replacing the standard 120GB). Also added a 750GB 2.5" USB drive externally.